I’d never

thought of naming my laptop. Now, I’m making a u-turn, deciding that it deserves a name: “Dolly.”

Hundreds of miles away from her for five full days, I can now warble with gusto, “Hello, Dolly. Well, hello, Dolly. It’s so good to have you back where you belong.”

Our “separation” began around 9 p.m. Aug. 31; reunion occurred when the UPS vehicle stopped at our house at 6:45 p.m. Sept. 4. (Had it been much later, the doorbell would have excited our rescue dog, Archie, and I’d have missed the spitting penalty against the tacky Philadelphia Eagle whose spittle hit Dallas quarterback Dak Prescott.)….

*****

Here’s how

the day started. I watched the Texas-Ohio State football game with a longtime friend in Denver who had provided an automobile for my week-long traipsing about the R

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